Terra amata
Author : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782070238255
Author : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782070238255
Author : Bernard Grant Campbell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202366609
Biologically as well as culturally sophisticated and drawing on an impressive array of archaeological and paleontological research, this new edition of a widely adopted primary and supplementary text explores human adaptations to environments over time. Campbell proceeds from earlier, simpler biomes to later, more complex ones, examining in their course selected aspects of the prehistory and history of the human species. Human Ecology offers a succinct introduction to the history of these adaptations within ecosystems, a shared concern among anthropologists, biologists, environmentalists, and the general reader.
Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110808676
Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520952138
Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. No other species creates such a variety of dwellings. Drawing examples from across the archaeological record and around the world, archaeologist Jerry D. Moore recounts the cultural development of the uniquely human imperative to maintain domestic dwellings. He shows how our houses allow us to physically adapt to the environment and conceptually order the cosmos, and explains how we fabricate dwellings and, in the process, construct our lives. The Prehistory of Home points out how houses function as symbols of equality or proclaim the social divides between people, and how they shield us not only from the elements, but increasingly from inchoate fear.
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603446761
Describes how mapping the human genome has aided paleoanthropologists in their study of ancient bones used to explore human origins, from the earliest humans--bipedal apes--up to Martin Pickford's Millennium Man.
Author : Keith A. Moser
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0739172050
This monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This interdisciplinary investigation explores the initial euphoria related to the ambivalent concept of the 'global village' and how this evaporated dream can perhaps be reappropriated to create a better global society for both the human and Cosmic Other through the lens of Le Cl zio's fiction. Chapter one offers a conceptual framework for understanding the Franco-Mauritian author's nuanced ideas concerning globalization. It also probes the original ambivalence of McLuhan's celebrated notion of a global village in addition to its euphoric reception. Chapter two explores the current state of the interconnected, interdependent modern world in which many disenfranchised and marginalized individuals are living a recurring nightmare. Chapter three examines Le Cl zio's deconstruction of the simplistic ideology of consumerism that is indicative of contemporary consumer republics. This section also underscores the intricate systems of hegemonic domination, such as the media, created by the transnational corporations that dominate the global economic landscape to sustain their supremacy. Chapter four delves into Le Cl zio's ecocentric humanism that extends to all other living creatures by debunking Manichean dualities that separate human beings from elemental matter and the rest of the universe. The final chapter examines recent texts, such as Raga, Ourania, and Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies, which encourage the reader to envision what a more just and egalitarian global village might encompass. These works dismiss neoliberal fantasies and consumerist ideology that have justified the systematic exploitation of everyone and everything in the name of progress, but they also urge the modern subject to be resilient in the face of tremendous adversity. Instead of accepting the imposition of a monolithic, socioeconomic model that is riddled with inequality and injustice and which serves the interests of the Happy Few, Le Cl zio suggests that the first step is to resist integration into the global village by stoically confronting reality and having the necessary courage to propose another vision which counterpoints McLuhan's misguided one.
Author : Colin Spencer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Vegetarianism
ISBN : 9780874517606
Micronesia Country Study Guide - Strategic Information and Developments Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300049831
A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the discipline, its institutionalization, and its academic expansion since the 1870s. "Donald Preziosi has written a timely and incisive study of the methods and assumptions of art history in the modern period. As the book unfolds, one realizes that art history was never as unitary and monolithic as the phrase 'the discipline of art history' suggests, but is in fact a complicated and highly contradictory range of practices whose disciplinary coherence may be more mythical than real. This is a deliberately discomforting book; however, for its clear-sightedness, rigor, and wit, it is a book to be welcomes by everyone concerned with the present condition and future direction of visual studies."--Norman Bryson, Harvard University "An important and courageous book, Rethinking Art History is a rigorous and original contribution to the current post-structuralist and postmodernist debates in cultural studies here and abroad."--Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College "Through this kind of reading of the discourse of art history, Preziosi provides some acute analysis of the metaphors and stratagems which continue to discipline the discipline of art history."
Author : Kathryn Bright Gurkin
Publisher : St Andrews Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780932662316
Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306472572
The study of European archaeology dates back to the 19th century, but the number of archaeologists, projects, and publications has increased greatly during the last three decades. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the restructuring of several countries, archaeology in Europe has more opportunity for interaction and research than previously was possible. This comprehensive volume covers the Prehistoric period in Europe, from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman Empire and includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments and explored using the archaeological data including: technology; trade; settlement; warfare; ritual. Using methodologies and theories that were previously unknown in Europe decades ago, new discoveries and arguments are included in the research as well as reevaluations of previous discoveries. This work also includes a present geographical summary and how it impacts the current archaeological discoveries and research being conducted. European Prehistory: A Survey includes many comprehensive maps and site photos. It will be a vital resource to prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists and historians in and outside of Europe.